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6.29.2007
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Employment Barriers among HOPE VI Families
Relocation Is Not Enough
Employment Barriers among HOPE VI Families
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Permanent Link: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=311491
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The text below is an excerpt from the complete document. Read the full brief in PDF format, or view a summary of the seven briefs in this series.
Abstract
In addition to providing residents with an improved living environment, the HOPE VI program seeks to help them attain self-sufficiency. However, while there have been dramatic improvements in quality of life, there have been no overall changes in employment. HOPE VI residents' poor health impedes their ability to work. Efforts that address physical and mental health and other key barriers, such as education and safe, affordable child care availability, could prove more effective than job training or placement efforts alone in improving the chances that former and current public housing residents move into employment or retain jobs they already have.
Introduction
The HOPE VI program seeks to improve economic self-sufficiency among original residents of severely distressed public housing developments and to improve the developments themselves. The self-sufficiency goal is particularly challenging in light of the extreme poverty, low education levels, and poor health many residents experience. Underlying the goal are hypotheses about how change would take place—that families would realize gains by moving to resource- and job-rich areas, by living among neighbors who could serve as role models and sources of employment information, or by accessing job and education services through the program's community and supportive services, or CSS, component (Cove et al. forthcoming; Popkin et al. 2004).
HOPE VI's CSS, which at many sites offers job training and placement services, is intended to benefit residents directly and to increase families' chances of meeting criteria for living in the new mixed-income developments—an important point in light of employment requirements for tenancy at some redeveloped sites.1 Employment affects not only a family's self-sufficiency, therefore, but its housing options as well. However, there are no established standards for CSS service packages or implementation practices. To date there is no evidence on the effectiveness of the voluntary CSS services for improving residents' self-sufficiency.
Through the HOPE VI Panel Study, we have tracked residents from five sites where relocation began in 2001 (see text box on page 9). We surveyed residents before relocation in 2001 and again in 2003 and 2005. According to evidence from the study, HOPE VI has led to improved life circumstances for many residents, who report living in better housing located in safer neighborhoods (Buron, Levy, and Gallagher 2007; Popkin and Cove 2007; Comey 2007). But these improvements in living conditions have not affected employment. At baseline, 48 percent of the working-age respondents were not employed—the same share as at the 2003 and 2005 follow-ups. In this brief, we explore why there has been no change. Our findings suggest that HOPE VI relocation and voluntary supportive services are unlikely to affect employment or address the many factors that keep disadvantaged residents out of the labor force.
(End of excerpt. The complete brief is available in PDF format.)
Related Research
Consultants - Housing Opportunities Unlimited
HOU has led numerous strategic planning projects related to the implementation of comprehensive community and supportive service programs. On a consulting basis, we have developed HUD-approved Community and Supportive Services Workplans for six public housing communities in transition due to major redevelopment including: Allequippa Terrace in Pittsburgh, Southfield Village in Stamford, CT, Broadway Homes in Baltimore, MD, East Capitol Dwellings in Washington, DC, Rockwell Gardens in Chicago and Arthur Capper Carrollsburg in Washington DC.
We have also developed the community and supportive services portion of the successfully funded application for a HUD HOPE VI grant for Southfield Village in Stamford, CT and collaborated on HOPE VI applications in Yonkers, NY, Washington, DC and Chicago Heights, IL.
Grant Writing/ Fundraising
Over the past twenty years, HOU has had tremendous success raising funds to support subsidized housing communities from federal and local government as well as private sources. HOU staff has experience developing applications for a host of US HUD, DOJ and DOED grant programs including the New Approach Anti-Drug Program, Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Program, Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Program, the Welfare-to-Work Program, the Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinator Grant Program, the Computer Technology Center Program and the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. Examples of HOU's successful fundraising efforts include the following.
- Approximately $860,000 in successful applications under the Department of Education's FY'01, '02 Community Technology Center grant program
- Approximately $1.2 million in successful applications under the HUD FY '00, '01 New Approach and Multifamily Drug Elimination grant programs
- Approximately $500,000 in successful applications under the HUD ROSS program
- Assisted in raising $500,000 from government sources for Harbor Point, Dorchester, MA
- Over $600,000 from federal and local government sources as well as private foundations for Allequippa Terrace, Pittsburgh, PA
- Over $2.5 million from federal government sources for various developments in Lynn, MA
- Assisted in raising over $1 million from federal sources for various developments in North Carolina managed by the Westminster Company
- Over $1 million from government, corporate, and foundation sources for Southfield Village in Stamford, CT
- Over $28,000 in local funding for Mandela Homes in Roxbury, MA
- Approximately $150,000 in federal funds for Elm Haven Apts, New Haven, CT
Building the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations
Housing Opportunities Unlimited has a philosophical commitment to helping residents take an active part in the redevelopment of their communities. As part of its work on major redevelopment projects across the country, we have helped community-based organizations build their organizational capacity, raise funds, administer grants, and develop strategic plans for sustaining their resources. Below, please find a list of resident- and community-based organizations that we have assisted:
- The Terraces Community Management Association
Townes at the Terraces (Baltimore, MD) - Atlantic City Resident Consultative Group
Shore Park/Shore Terrace HOPE VI Project (Atlantic City) - East Capitol View Community Development Corporation
East Capitol HOPE VI Project (Washington, DC) - Elm Haven Residents Council
Elm Haven/Monterey Place HOPE VI Program (New Haven, CT) - Southfield Village Residents Council
Southfield Village/Southwood Square HOPE VI Program (Stamford, CT) - Allequippa Terrace Residents Council
Allequippa Terrace/Oak Hill HOPE VI Program (Pittsburgh, PA) - Hope Village, Inc./Broadway Homes Residents Council
Broadway Homes HOPE VI Program (Baltimore, MD) - Harbor Point Community Task Force
Harbor Point Apartments (Dorchester, MA) - Mandela Residents Cooperative Association
Mandela Homes (Roxbury, MA) - Kingsley Park Improvement Association & St. Stephen's AME Church
Kingsley Park Apartments (Baltimore County, MD) - Circle Terrace Residents Council
Circle Terrace Apartments (Baltimore County, MD) - Bay Ridge Residents Council
Bay Ridge Gardens Apartments (Annapolis, MD) - Beechfield Neighborhood Improvement Association
Beechfield Neighborhood (Southwest Baltimore, MD)
6.28.2007
The FY 2007 HOPE VI Main Street Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA)
Main Street Grants Notice of Funding Availability
The FY 2007 HOPE VI Main Street Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) was published in the Federal Register on June 29, 2007. The NOFA, in pdf (as published in the Federal Register) and in MS Word format, along with required application forms and information, are posted below. The deadline for application submission is August 29, 2007. Applicants must submit their applications electronically via Grants.gov. All of the materials below are posted to Grants.gov to be downloaded for completion by the applicant.
Applicants are advised to begin the Grants.gov registration process well in advance of the submission deadline. Applicants are also advised to visit HUD's Grants web page at http://www.hud.gov/grants to obtain the 2007 General Section and other pertinent guidance.
Applicants are advised to begin the Grants.gov registration process well in advance of the submission deadline. Applicants are also advised to visit HUD's Grants web page at http://www.hud.gov/grants to obtain the 2007 General Section and other pertinent guidance.
 | FY07 HOPE VI Main Street NOFA as published in the Federal Register on June 29, 2007
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| | Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) | ||||
| | Facsimile Transmittal (HUD-96011) | ||||
| | HUD Applicant Recipient Disclosure Report (HUD-2880) | ||||
| | HUD Community Initiative Form (HUD-27300) | ||||
| | Disclosure of Lobbying Activities (SF-LLL) | ||||
| | HOPE VI Main Street Application Data Sheet, form HUD-52861 (MS-Excel, 494 KB) | ||||
| | HOPE VI Budget, form HUD-52825A | ||||
| | Schedule B - FY 2007 Final Fair Market Rents | ||||
| | 2007 Income Limits (MS-Word) | ||||
| | Certification of Consistency with the RC/EZ/EC-IIs Strategic Plan, form HUD-2990 | ||||
| | Logic Model, form HUD-96010 (MS-Excel, 451 KB) |
Revitalization Grants Notice of Funding Availability
The FY 2007 HOPE VI Revitalization Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) was Funded by Congress and will be published in the Federal Register.
Please note that applicants must submit their applications via Grants.gov. All these materials are posted to Grants.gov and should be downloaded for completion from Grants.gov.
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